Jan 14, 2026 | Curt Comments
By Curt Kovener (This is an encore column from the Curt Comments archives.) I dismissed some mild stomach queasiness as eating too much holiday food. But as the morning wore on the stomach pains sharpened to occasional bolts of electricity of the 220 volt variety and...
Dec 24, 2025 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of just about everything. He is the national saint of Russia and Greece and churches named after him number in the thousands – more than 400 in Great Britain alone. He is the patron saint of judges,...
Nov 26, 2025 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener For those times when everyone around the Thanksgiving table is quiet, share one of these to stimulate conversation. Or not and just enjoy the rare family quiet time. •To make half a kilogram of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million...
Oct 15, 2025 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Almost every Tuesday is trash pick up day in Crothersville as well as a number of other communities. Don’t ask me why Tuesday seems to be universal municipal trash day. I don’t know. But we are a trashy people. From the dawn of civilization we...
Oct 1, 2025 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Language and speech are two matters which differentiate us from non-communicating species…or at least it is intended to. But maybe there were some things we didn’t learn in high school English, speech & science classes. •The voice box sits...
Sep 3, 2025 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener To paraphrase GOT’s Tyrion Lannister, ” I read and I know things.” In my reading I have been accumulating some brilliantly dimwitted sayings and it is time to pass them along. •When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate. •A...
